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（新聞用語）政界要人，政府高官
Journalists sometimes use mandarin to refer to someone who has an important job in the Civil Service.
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...Foreign Office mandarins.
外交部高官
...the latest evidence of the mandarins' power over their ministers.
證明政府高官對部長們的影響力的最新證據
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漢語普通話
Mandarin is the commonly-used language of China.
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柑橘
A mandarin or a mandarin orange is a small orange whose skin comes off easily.
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(中國古代的)官僚，大臣
A mandarin was, in former times, an important government official in China.